From the category archives:

Baseball

The One-Way Road for Baseball’s Heroes

February 18, 2009

We have talked occasionally on these pages about the game of baseball as a metaphor for life.  It has its rules, which are to be respected, otherwise nothing can be advanced.  (Wall Street please note.)  It has its ups and downs, which test the loyalty of fans. Some teams in New York and Chicago test [...]

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David Halberstam | 1934 — 2007

April 24, 2007

Author. Thinker. Journalist. In the highest traditions of those professions. A civilized man for who whom baseball was a metaphor for life that taught about the place of rules, ethics and integrity in the governance and leadership of the public’s business. For those who seek the truth, and occasionally wonder how it is discovered, his [...]

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Jackie Robinson: He Made Us All Number 42

April 16, 2007

One of the marvelous things about the game of baseball is that its heroes are so often a metaphor for the virtues of a well lived life. Babe Ruth overcame a broken family and a childhood spent in orphanages to swing his way into America’s homes. Then there was the Yankees’ great Lou Gehrig, whose [...]

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